Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-460)

The ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A brief spell by the river / Colleen McElroy -- An adventure in the Big Horn Mountains; or, the trials and tribulations of a recruit / Eugene P. Frierson -- The averted strike / Charles W. Chesnutt -- As the Lord lives, He is one of our mother's children / Pauline E. Hopkins -- Jesus Christ in Texas / W.E.B. DuBois -- Jim Crow in Texas / William Pickens -- The little grey house / Anita Scott Coleman -- Children of chance / Julian Elihu Bagley -- Let the church roll on / Nick Aaron Ford -- Why I returned / Arna Bontemps -- No fools, no fun / March Lacy -- The gun / Langston Hughes -- Grazing in good pastures / Margaret Williams -- Mister Toussan / Ralph Ellison -- Health card / Frank Yerby -- Stop, Thief! / John Wesley Groves IV -- Lunching at the Ritzmore / Chester Himes -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Keys to the city / Malvin Wald -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- Direct action / Mike Thelwell -- The coming of the hoodlum / Johnie Scott --

Ticket to freedom / John R. Posey -- Judah's a two-way street running out / Jack Burris -- Water seeks its own level / Maxine Clair -- The flashlight / Eldridge Cleaver --Support your local police / Ed Bullins -- Ridin' the moon in Texas / Ntozake Shange -- Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Tell me Moore / Aya de Leon -- Quilting on the rebound / Terry McMillan -- Damon and Vandalia / Rita Dove -- Tenderhead / Harryette Mullen -- The Friday night shift at the taco house blues (wah-wah) / Wanda Coleman -- Emerald City: Third & Pike / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- Elbow room / James Alan McPherson -- Long distances / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Now is the time / Cecil M. Brown -- Cry about a nickel / Percival Everett -- Surfiction / John Edgar Wideman -- The trip back from Whidbey / William Henry Lewis -- Wonderful teen / Carolyn Ferrell -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- Equal opportunity / Walter Mosley -- Amen / Sunny Nash

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